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Resilience Trumps ACEs Deck of Cards™ & Handbook

Available exclusively from the Children’s Resilience Initiative™, the deck includes 42 Resilience Building Blocks to help build resilience into our children’s lives.

The handbook explains the ACEs and Resilience information in brief content material, and describes each Resilience card. We include a couple of game ideas and other valuable information. Spanish and English versions are available.

Price: $20.00Plus $2.50 for S/H

Discount of 20% to returning customers or on the purchase of 10 items or more.

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Testimonials

“Teri, these cards are common sense, I almost wasn’t paying attention at first. But now I see what you are saying, I need to be intentional in teaching these to my son. I didn’t realize I needed to teach these skills, I thought they would just be there some day in him.”

Parent

“I was a bit skeptical in seeing how a parent would react to the deck of cards. Then, when I had a home visit, I sat down at the kitchen table with a mom and showed her a specific resilience card I saw her son using at school. After we talked about that, she looked at the 10 ACE cards that I had just pushed aside in a pile, and she asked me, “What are those?” I said, those are the bad things that can happen to us in childhood that cause trouble later on. She looked at the 10 cards, spread them out, really looked at them, then said, “Yeah, those are bad things, and they all happened to me.” She was very engaged in studying the resilience cards with me.

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“As a result of the ACE training, I now know I am not a bad parent, or a bad person. I was dealt a bad hand, but I don’t have to hold that hand any more. I can hold my head up. I don’t have to hide anymore.”

Parent

“This information affects my daily life now, and how I interact with my two year old son. I am more loving and creative as a result. Every parent needs to know this!”

Parent

…the training / presentation went very well; the response from both groups was extremely well received. Thanks so much. I knew you and Teri would be great; your community has built a wonderful response to childhood trauma and your collective leadership and commitment to what you do is obvious from the get go. Just wish I could have been there.”

Joseph Tardella, Executive Director, Southwest Counseling Solutions

“I was a bit skeptical in seeing how a parent would react to the deck of cards. Then, when I had a home visit, I sat down at the kitchen table with a mom and showed her a specific resilience card I saw her son using at school. After we talked about that, she looked at the 10 ACE cards that I had just pushed aside in a pile, and she asked me, “What are those?” I said, those are the bad things that can happen to us in childhood that cause trouble later on. She looked at the 10 card…

Intervention Specialist

“This is some of the most profound information I have ever heard.”

Police Officer

“When you first started talking about a community initiative on ACES, I thought- yeah, right, that’ll happen. But you have, you have changed what is possible in a community. A community can be informed, a community can change and shift its collective thinking.”

Service Provider

“This is the single, most powerful information I have ever received.”

Teacher

Teri and Mark – Thank you so much for bringing your wealth of expertise, wonderfully engaging tools and generous exchange of ideas to Kansas City! The standing ovation by our 250+ audience members says it all – you rock! The University of Missouri-Kansas City continuing education folks declared the whole day a rousing success. They were particularly impressed by the way you were able to engage and keep people there until the very end of the day. They were also appreciative of the many resources/…

Janine Hron, CEO, Crittenton Children’s Center in Kansas City

“This is the single, most powerful information I have ever received.”

Teacher

“Your work has changed how I live my life.”

Teacher

“I will not beat my children like I was beaten. I don’t hate my mother for what she did – she had six kids – I get it! But I won’t do what she did! What’s the point? That only continues the cycle! We have to give our children other ways to grow up.”

Parent

“Teri, these cards are common sense, I almost wasn’t paying attention at first. But now I see what you are saying, I need to be intentional in teaching these to my son. I didn’t realize I needed to teach these skills, I thought they would just be there some day in him.”

Parent

“This information affects my daily life now, and how I interact with my two year old son. I am more loving and creative as a result. Every parent needs to know this!”

Parent

“I am more compassionate as a result of this information, and I find I am much more patient in dealing with my students now that I understand why I often need to repeat the information more than once.”